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Remarkable Lethal G-to-A Mutations in vif- Proficient HIV-1 Provirus by Individual APOBEC3 Proteins in Humanized Mice
8 Jul 2010
Abstract excerpt
Genomic hypermutation of RNA viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), can be provoked by intrinsic and extrinsic pressures, which lead to the inhibition of viral replication and/or the progression of viral diversity. Human APOBEC3G was identified as an HIV-1 restriction factor, which edits nascent HIV-1 DNA by inducing G-to-A hypermutations and debilitates the infectivity of vif-deficient...
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